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“If you have competence, you know the edge. It wouldnt be a competence if you didnt know where the boundaries lie. Asking whether youve passed the boundary is a question that almost answers itself.”

Ifs Knows Lying Answers Asking Edges Boundaries Competence

Author:Charlie Munger

“It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.”

Way Want Would Be Lying Too Much Asking Sells Selling Starvation Connoisseur Asking Too Much

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.”

Lying Asking Edges Charm Wilderness Beaten

Book:The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places

Source: The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places

“Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force”

Lying Force Causes Levels Quality Lows Asking Safety Productivity Target Zero Defects Slogans Zero Defects

Book:The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality

Source: The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality

“Asking about a time before the beginning of our spherical spacetime is like asking what lies north of the North Pole. There is no such thing.”

Lying Religion Asking North Pole Spacetime

Book:The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science

Source: The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science

“It is a rule of mine never to ask unsolicited questions of people over twenty-one. I am only giving them the option of lying if they choose to. They would tell me the truth without my asking if they wanted me to know. To me that's fair enough.”

People Ifs Knows Giving Enough Wanted Lying Asks Mines Fairs Twenties Asking Twenty One Tell Me The Truth

Book:The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences

Source: The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences

“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.”

Ifs World Philosophy Shows Lying Wish Interest Answers Wonder Increase Asking Surface Daily Life Asking Questions Strangeness Below The Surface

Book:The Problems of Philosophy

Source: The Problems of Philosophy